[Javascript] HTML Tag that can hold data for JavaScript?

[Peter-Paul Koch]

> What I'd like to do is create a tag that holds data that I can access in
> Javascript like this:
> <mycustomtag myProp1="myValue1" myProp2="myValue2"/>
> 
> but I don't know how to access the properties in js. I enumerated and
> there was no properties. Is there a tag that exists that I can use? I
> need it to be hidden because I only want to access it from js.

Can be done, though I advise you to use normal HTML tags: custom tags
are not accessible in all browsers.

See http://www.alistapart.com/discuss/scripttriggers/ for an article I
wrote recently about exactly this subject.

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